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Linksys DMA2200 Media Extender plummets from $350 to $95 {Engadget HD}
Mar 27th 2009 2:35PM These will work with Windows 7 and have worked flawlessly with the Beta. Better yet, W7 supports a greater number of codecs and will transcode on the fly to the extender as needed.
DISH Network's Draco project brings programming to Windows Media Center {Engadget HD}
Jan 16th 2009 1:05PM This is just a way to get premium HD television content and use your media center computer as your primary DVR. Then the content can be streamed via extenders throughout the house to other TVs and you can connect the media center computer directly to your TV. This allows centralized tuning and storage using the windows media center interface. Currently, to get premium HD television in Windows Media Center, you need a cablecard equipped OEM PC with digital cable tuners.
The beauty of Dish's setup is that they are already making the tuner and don't need to create a separate tuner (see failed HDPC20). I suppose you need only connect the VIP211k via ethernet to your router/switch. Time will tell.
DISH Network's Draco project brings programming to Windows Media Center {Engadget HD}
Jan 16th 2009 12:35PM gamefreak32,
This is not for your typical desktop PC (though it could be) it is designed for a home theater computer (HTPC) connected directly to the TV or for the various media center extenders hooked to the TV and connected back to the PC through the network.
They really need each VIP 211 to offer two tuners.
It's time to speak up for automatic commercial skipping in Media Center {Engadget HD}
Sep 3rd 2008 5:49PM Let us know where to send our comments. I'm waffling back and forth between keeping DVRMS Toolbox and installing TV Pack but really want both. :) I assumed it would take some time to get the new format to be recognized but this seems to be something more serious.
Hands-on with the Vista Media Center TV Pack {Engadget HD}
Aug 25th 2008 12:47PM Ben,
Its been several weeks you've had TV Pack. Any further thoughts? Any idea about Plugins working, most importantly DVRMS toolbox? In all the reading I've done in the various forums, something doesn't add up with what they have told us so far. Several comments such as "I wish we could say something so people wouldn't screw up their PCs" and I expect some other announcment at CEDIA. Could just be an update path for TV Pack for existing users or something bigger, but just a feeling I get.
My overall question is, how is the TV Pack three weeks later?
Microsoft gets official with the Vista Media Center TV Pack {Engadget HD}
Aug 11th 2008 11:57AM Ben, do cable card recordings play in Windows Media Player, or just in Media Center? Just trying to see if the DRM has changed any with the PlayReady system.
